Spencer's Bird

Derby City Pro Staffer, Rick Denkhoff, gave a slate Spur to one of my students at school.  The student, Spencer Delepierre, used the call during Kentucky’s youth hunt to bag a nice longbeard.  Spencer stopped by my office the other morning to show me pictures and gave me a letter that he wrote.  This is what Spencer had to say-

 

 

 

Dear Derby City Game Calls,

Your product works great.  I got my tom this year on the first day of my hunt by using the slate spur and 500 year old maple striker.  Every time I yelped, cut, or purred, the tom gobbled and worked closer with each call I made.  Your product is easy to use and sounds like a real turkey.  I will recommend this call to all my friends without hesitation.  Thank you for your super product.

Sincerely,

Spencer Delepierre

Congrats again to Spencer on a nice longbeard.  I would also like to give a shout out to Rick for being gracious to give a young hunter a call.

Derby City Calls had a booth in the innovations zone for this year’s ATA show.  The trade show is an order writing event and is geared more to Archery, however, we had many people interested in checking out our high quality turkey calls.  Derby City signed up 6 dealers who will carry our calls this spring.  These dealers ranged from the deep South, up into the midwestern United States.  We hope to have a dealer page set up for our visitors soon.  This would allow you to drop in and check out what they have to offer if they are located close to you.

Derby City’s Jeff Sullivan, Brent Stoner, Rick Denkhoff, Dave Berry, Scott Cronin, Tedd Moffett, and myself helped man the booth for 3 days.  We met a lot of good people in the hunting industry and made some good connections.  We hope to establish good working relationships with many of these people.  We were really pleased with the responses we received on our calls.  Many people were interested in our newest release, the turkey track.  This call will be available soon on our website.  There are some pictures in this blog that show you the new design.  Let me assure you, this is not just one beautiful looking call, it sounds phenomenal.

We all had a great trip and are now focusing our attention to Nashville for the NWTF National Convention in February.  We will have several Turkey Track calls on hand, for all you diehard turkey hunting fanatics, to try.  If you are looking for a true one of a kind call this year, all I can tell you is “TRUE AMERICAN CHESTNUT.”  Hopefully, this will get you excited to come and see us.

If you live in or around the Louisville area or are just passing through, we invite you to come and visit with us.  Let Derby City help you fill those tags this year.  We would like to thank everyone for a great start in the call making business.

Rick's Bird - 22lbs, 9 1/2 beard, 3/4 inch spurs

Derby City Pro Staffer, Rick Denkhoff, ended a long year of chasing longbeards on a high note yesterday.  He closed the deal on the next to the last day of the fall season.  Here is an account of Rick’s hunt.

“December 10th, the next to the last day of Kentucky’s fall turkey season, was a great day.  The temperature was 28 degrees with a cold wind blowing.  I had been sitting for about two hours and was getting really cold.  If it wasn’t for my new hunting blind keeping that wind off of me, I would have been out of the woods way before I got a shot at this gobbler.  I was getting ready to pack up and head out when I finally heard some birds working their way towards me.  I was able to call in four longbeards using soft clucks and purrs with my Old Growth Magnum call and Old Growth Cherry striker. The birds came to within 25 yards and I harvested a 22 pound gobbler with a 9 1/2 inch beard and 3/4 inch spurs.  It has been a long season and I was glad to finally bag my first bird of the year.  I am looking forward to the 2010 spring season, using my Derby City Calls.”

Rick is a great guy.  He is a very humble person.  We are thrilled that he connected on a nice bird.  Congrats Rick.

One of the things I like about hunting is that it allows you to meet a lot of people and develop life- long friendships.  Many of my good friends are hunters who I have met through my love of the outdoors.  Working at Derby City Calls has expanded my network of friends even more.  Brent Stoner has become a good friend of mine.  We recently started hunting together and have had success turkey hunting and chasing rabbits.  Jeff and Eric Sullivan have also become good friends.  There guys are not hunters…yet!!  My love of hunting allowed me to meet these guys when they were looking at manufacturing turkey calls.  Jeff and Eric are hardworking business owners.  They have been great to work with and I look forward to many years of friendship. 

To Brent, Jeff, and Eric- I am blessed to have you guys as friends.  I look forward to growing these friendships over the years.

To Rick Denkhoff (another good friend)- You better kill a big turkey or deer this year if you still want to be a Pro Staffer.